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Puzzle Description:
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 2, 2011 [SPOILER]
Simple, with just color logic.#2: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Apr 11, 2011
I like the look of this. It's a rocket with bellbottoms. http://images.google.com/images?q=Vostok+1
The phrasing of the description is deliberate. According to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, a spaceflight must include a landing *in the craft*. And while the re-entry capsule made it back in one piece, Yuri bailed out 4 mi. up.
wow#3: Trish (tryingmysoul) on Apr 11, 2011
an easy puzzle from you (rare)
nice image
fun color logic
Very nice.#4: Susan Duncan (medic25733) on Apr 12, 2011
Very nice#5: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Apr 12, 2011 [SPOILER]
nice puzzle Joe... i remember being sad the russians beat us out#6: Leigh Cousins (pog) on Apr 12, 2011 [SPOILER]
I thought the first person into space was the American, Alan Shepherd, later a Moon visitor. However, he went up and down again. Gagarin was the first to complete an orbit.#7: annalivia (annalivia) on Apr 12, 2011 [SPOILER]
nice... love the exhaust flames. I remember that, too sensei.#8: Wombat (wombatilim) on Apr 13, 2011 [SPOILER]
Gagarin was technically the first person in space who survived the landing... the Soviets had sent others up, but they hadn't survived the journey.#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 13, 2011 [SPOILER]
Shepard was the first American in space, but did not make his first journey until after Gagarin. Shepard's flight was May 5, 1961; Gagarin's was Apr 12 of that year.
April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth and parachutes from the landing craft.#10: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Apr 13, 2011
May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard gets out of the atmosphere, but not high enough to orbit.
February 20, 1962: John Glenn becomes the first to complete a "spaceflight" by orbiting and landing in the craft.
I had never heard about anyone before Gagarin, so I did some looking and found that this is more in the realm of conspiracy theory than fact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_cosmonauts
joe... facts not-with-standing...i lived that era and WE were not the 1st to go into space... BUT we were first to the moon#11: Teresa K (fasstar) on Apr 15, 2011
Nicely done, Joe. Fun solve and interesting info.#12: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 16, 2011
Thanks Teresa.#13: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Dec 5, 2021 [SPOILER]
I spent most of the puzzle expecting it to be a birthday cake, so I was very surprised by what it turned out to be!
Sixty years ago now!
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